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Free content Vs. Paid content + The blogging journalists…

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

From Nieman… two interesting videos —the first one and the last one. Alan Murray, deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal: – Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal on charging for content from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo. … Continue reading →

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Why InTrade CEO John Delaney, TradeSports acting CEO John Delaney, BetFair CEO David Yu, HubDub CEO Nigel Eccles and NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber should supplicate me to develop my prediction market journalism project

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- 200 web visitors (coming from Google) reached my John Edwards post, published yesterday afternoon (ET). – 10% of them followed my links to the 2 HubDub prediction markets on John Edwards. – - Remember that those web stats count … Continue reading →

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Google PageRank of the main Prediction Market Consultants

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Inking Markets and NewsFutures are graded 6 / 10. Consensus Point and Xpree are graded 5 / 10.

Posted in Consulting, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Software | Tagged CEO, Consensus Point, consultants, consulting firms, David Perry, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Google, Google PageRank, inkling markets, NewsFutures, PageRank, prediction market consultants, Prediction Market Software, prediction markets, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Xpree | Leave a comment

What InTrade CEO John Delaney told the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets)

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): July 4th 2008 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Three Lafayette Centre 1155 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20581 U.S.A. Attention: Office of the Secretariat RE: â€œConcept Release … Continue reading →

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“In its upcoming proceedings, therefore, the CFTC should exempt prediction markets from regulations that would prevent them from flourishing, like requiring that such shares be traded on designated commodity exchanges.”

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

… wrote that academic guy in the Wall Street Journal. But he doesn’t mention that HedgeStreet and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (and the CBOT) are all for the “excluded commodities” and the “Designated Contract Makers” way. – Honesty and fairness, … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Regulations | Tagged CFTC, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CME Group, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, event derivatives, evet derivatives, HedgeStreet, Ivory Tower, laws, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, real-money prediction markets, Regulations, The Wall Street Journal, traded bets, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Where is Tom W. Bell when we need him?

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Yahoo!’s Political Dashboard does not link to InTrade. The Wall Street Journal does link to InTrade. – Does anybody know whether full prediction market journalism can be practiced on America‘s soil? Or do we have to go offshore to be … Continue reading →

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BAD KARMA FOR PREDICTION MARKET JOURNALISM: Almost nodoby has linked to Justin Wolfers’ articles at the Wall Street Journal.

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Considering that he is the #2 researcher in our field, that he issued bold statements on the use of market-generated predictions by journalists (“2020″), that the WSJ is the premier business publication, then that’s bad omen for prediction market journalism … Continue reading →

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HubDub and Smarkets are creating what InTrade-TradeSports and BetFair-TradeFair never could: SOCIAL NETWORKING BETTING.

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

TechCrunch UK: HubDub, a fantasy league for designed to monetise news content better for publishers (review), has introduced the ability for users to challenge their friends in making predictions. Hereâ€™s how it works: A user sends a challenge to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Market Liquidity, Prediction Journalism | Tagged HubDub, Nigel Eccles, prediction markets, social betting, social networking betting, the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

How to read the Wall Street Journal stories on prediction markets… FOR FREE

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Very simple. The WSJ is free if you come from big news content aggregators (like Digg or Google News). If you can manage to have your browser produce artificially a Digg or Google News referral, then you’re permitted to enter … Continue reading →

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Will HedgeStreet USA, the hypothetical InTrade USA, and the hypothetical TradeFair USA, be regulated in the future by a merged SEC+CFTC regulatory structure?

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

That sounds like a good prediction market proposal. – As you all know: The SEC regulates the securities markets (which support capital formation). The CFTC regulates the futures markets (which exist to discover prices). The SEC is rules based, meaning … Continue reading →

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